In the Etsy Shop...

The Blue Ocean Necklace is back in the shop!  I know, I know...it's been a little while.  I also know I should keep it in stock considering that it is my best seller.  What's my problem you ask?  Well...

I'll get an idea.  I'll mull it over for a while.  I'll figure out the best way to build the piece.  I'll make it and then I think DONE!  NEXT!  I get such an amazing feeling of accomplishment that all I want to do is come up with another idea so I can feel it again.  It just seems like making something that I've already made would stop me from growing creatively.

I'm slowly starting to realize that this is ridiculous.  Whether I make one or fifty of the same piece, it's my creation so I should be able to get that 'high' off of every one that I make. I need to learn to turn the joy I feel from someone enjoying my work into motivating fuel towards understanding that it's okay to go 'back'. 

Alright, I have to go now.  I have more Blue Ocean Necklaces to make.

See...I'm learning!

And so it begins...

Okay...so it actually began a couple of months ago...steps on a path leading to what I hope to be really great things.  See,  I have worked on movies and television shows for over 10 years.  I love the business, but working in film is not as creative an endeavor as one would assume. Well, not in the positions that I've worked in anyway.

When I was a little girl I would make clothes out of brown paper bags.  I would design outfits for my barbies. I would make daisy chain bracelets. I would basically do anything that allowed a creative outlet.  Not because I wanted to, but because I needed to.

Now here I am, many years later, having hopped from one hobby to another...when I had time to.  Then a couple of months back I decided that enough was enough. I've worked really hard and I deserved to take a break and actually focus on being creative.  I took a leap, a very scary leap and started Chocolate Sushi Handmade.

 
I created this blog to document the journey of a woman...(that's me!)...trying to become a successful entrepreneur while working out of her one bedroom apartment in NYC.  I hope you'll come along with me through the ups and downs and lessons learned, but mostly I hope it will encourage you to take your first, scary leap!

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